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    A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Son from America"
    A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Son from America"
    A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Son from America"
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    A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Son from America"

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    A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Son from America," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535839662
    A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Son from America"

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      The Son from America

      Isaac Bashevis Singer

      1973

      Introduction

      The Son from America is a short story by Jewish American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. It was first published in the New Yorker on February 17, 1973, and was reprinted later in the same year in Singer's collection of stories A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. Singer was born in Poland but immigrated to the United States in 1935. He continued to write in his first language, Yiddish, and this story has been translated from the Yiddish by author Dorothea Straus. Likemany of Singer's stories, it is set in a Jewish community in Poland like the one Singer knew in his youth. It takes place somewhere around the beginning of the twentieth century in Lentshin, a tiny Jewish village. Berl and Berlcha, an old couple, are astonished one day when their son Samuel, who immigrated to America forty years ago, comes to visit them. He has prospered in his new country and wants to help his parents and the village financially, but he soon learns that the people in Lentshin are happy with what they have; they need nothing from him. Singer is considered one of the finest of twentieth-century American short story writers, and The Son from America, with its clearly drawn characters, interesting plot, and economical style, is an excellent introduction to his work.

      Author Biography

      Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Leoncin, Poland, on November 21, 1904. His father was a Hasidic rabbi, and his mother was the daughter of a rabbi. Singer had two brothers and one sister. When Singer was four, the family moved to Warsaw. During World War I, the Germans occupied Warsaw, and the family experienced hardship. In 1917, Singer and his mother and younger brother moved to Bilgoray, where Singer studied the Talmud and the Jewish mystical writings of the kabbalah. He also learned and taught modern Hebrew.

      In 1923, Singer returned to Warsaw, where he worked as a proofreader for a journal, Literarisshe bleter. He also wrote reviews and translated novels into Yiddish. His first published fiction was a short story written in Yiddish that won a literary prize from Literarisshe bleter in 1925. Singer continued to publish short fiction during the

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